While the consequences of terrorism are unfortunately all too well-known and palpable, its causes very often evade us due to their politicization. Thus, one person’s “terrorist” may be another person’s

Students will learn how to cooperate with each other to produce a white paper that is more than the sum of each individual contribution. They will identity the issues related

For the first time in many decades, the world has entered a period of major energy transition, driven by deep-seated concerns about climate change, health impacts of carbon fuels, and

Are you concerned about immigrant rights in our state today? Interested in conducting firsthand research requested by local and national organizations working to address rights concerns that arise in the

This Task Force will examine humanitarian aid in the Post-9/11 world where long-held humanitarian principles are challenged every day by facts on the ground. Task Force members will wrestle with

This task force will do a survey of nation-state cybersecurity strategy – engaging in comparative country case studies – as well as a look to the state of international agreements

U.S. foreign policy interests in Asia and the wider world increasingly center on the region of South Asia, particularly India but also Pakistan and Bangladesh.  In recent years, the US.

After over seven years of civil war, the conflict in Syria is slowly coming to an end, leaving over 12 million people injured, displaced or dead: almost half of the

As a long-standing ally of the United States and a member of NATO, Turkey worked closely with its American and European partners throughout the Cold War and later.  In recent

Is democracy “over”? Around the world, established democracies are said to face “deconsolidation” or “erosion.” In other words, democracies seem a lot less stable and even less democratic. Separating rhetoric